Elmiry Ann's Valentine
"Si," said Mrs. Safford, "didn't Elmiry Ann Rogers come in here to-day to buy a valentine?"
"Yep," replied the postmaster, without interest. "One of them twenty-five cent ones, with lace onto it."
"I thought so," grunted the wife of his bosom.
"How, now, Aureely? Why ain't she a right to buy a valentine if she wants one?"
"She's a fine one to be buyin' sech trash, when everybody in The Corners knows she ain't hardly got enough to keep soul and body together, let alone clothes and valentines. I knowed she'd done it, jest as well as if I'd see her do it, 'cause she aint' missed comin' in on the twelfth of February sence we come here, and that is nigh onto fourteen year."
"Well," said Silas, after a long silence, "what of it?"